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Re: [NTG-context] No way to use XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello Oliver, Thank you very much. You encouraged me to do some more tests and finally I discovered something useful. The cow.pdf from context examples runs smoothly. My .pdf was saved in Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro and this turns out the main cause. Saving with older versions compatibility and adjusting other settings don't help also. Anything created in this Acrobat fails in XeTeX. And good news: pdf created in Inkscape seems to be valid input for XeTeX! -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky > Well, first try inserting the sample PDF file "cow.pdf" supplied with > ConTeXt via > \placefigure{Test}{\externalfigure[cow]} > Contrary to including the familiar text snippets (like tufte, ward > etc.) you can't use cow.pdf directly from its original place in the > ConTeXt tree but you'll need to copy it into your working directory. > (You may have to download cont-img.zip from www.pragma-ade.com first > in order to find the sample images at all). > With ImageMagick installed (and write18 activated) XeTeX should now > generate an auxiliary file cow.pdf.rli when processing your TeX > source and include the figure flawlessly. > Let me know if this works. > Oliver > P.S. Dealing with your own PDF files would be the next step but I'm > currently trying to track down a nasty distortion issue and I haven't > quite figured out yet whether this is caused by a malformed PDF image > or by ConTeXt. However, the file cow.pdf appears to be harmless in > this respect, hence my advice to try this out first.

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Some progress with XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, I have some progress with XeTeX already (with the version included in TeXLive distribution). 1a) Including external graphics really requires ImageMagic to be installed. 1b) PDF pictures refuse to be inserted for unknown reason but PNGs are handled fine. 2) To use Windows encoding such as cp1251 (for Cyrrilc), two commands in preamble are needed: \enableregime[cp1251] \XeTeXinputencoding[cp1251] Question: what is a application to prepare custom vector graphics? Since pdfs are not included, it should be something more specific. My favourite one, Inkscape, allows export to .tex formatted for LaTex with PSTricks; obvously ConTeXt failes with it. -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Fwd: Re[2]: No way to use XeTeX
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, Taco and Anita, you are geniuses! shell_escape was set to false, indeed. However, it fails further. My ch6.pdf output file isn't created at all whenever I insert \externalfigure[f01.pdf]. The log says ... systems : begin file ch6 at line 10 \@sl@\@@shortsectionnumber=\count214 section : 1 Random numbers \@sl@\textunderscore=\count215 (././f01.pdf.rli) figures : dimensions of f01.pdf are determined externally \@sg@\crossreferenceobject=\count216 (./ch6.tuo) fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: texnansi-public-lm fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: lm-ec fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: texnansi-base fonts : using map file: qx-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: qx-public-lm fonts : using map file: t5-public-lm [1.1] [2.2] subsection : 1.1 Uniform distribution subsection : 1.2 Random integers [3.3] subsection : 1.3 Normal distribution [4.4] systems : end file ch6 at line 91 system : cont-err loaded (c:/TeXLive2007/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/cont-err.tex systems : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead ) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 1675 strings out of 58098 29794 string characters out of 548810 4596067 words of memory out of 5529777 41303 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000 77322 words of font info for 68 fonts, out of 1200000 for 2000 192 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191 47i,22n,60p,526b,1090s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,5000s -- Best regards, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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XeTeX is broken after ConTeXt update
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Hello, To get rid of dummy boxes instead of figures in XeTeX output, I've decided to update the stuff (I already has installed fresh latest TeXLive). I typed ctxtools --update then texexec --xtx --make en and even recreated format files from TeXLive GUI. After all, I get (c:/TeXLive2007/../texmf-local/tex/context/base/type-xtx.tex) ! Font \*myface12ptrmtfrm*:='"mapping=tex-text at 12.0pt"' not loadable: installed font not found. The test file is \enableregime[utf] \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] \starttext Hello! \stoptext I can reinstall the TeXLive completely, but I need to know what is wrong to update it succesfully next time. Best, Vatcheslav Yatskovsky

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Updates with older dates
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 14 Apr '07

14 Apr '07

Sorry, just found a strange thing. A month old distribution of TeXLive contains bib-mod.doc file dated November 4, 2006. And current cont-tmf.zip contains the same file but dated... September 7, 2006. Strange, isn't it? Best, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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book by hermann zapf
by Hans Hagen 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hi, For those who like beautiful books and are not a Dante member ... http://www.linotype.com/26/merchandise.html you can order Hermann Zapfs latest book here, apart from being an interesting and well designed book, it's also also a nice palatino showcase (nova and sans), perfect paper, hard cover and bound, so go for it ... Dante members got this book as gift sponsored by Hermann Zapf. Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Mojca Miklavec 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

I admit it. I admit everything. I'm the guily one for the whole mess about XeTeX! http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes_in_XeTeX Some time ago Hans has decided to ignore \enableregime in XeTeX. I could have written more (and cite things), but I'm in a hurry right now and I will probably be offline for the whole weekend. The wiki pages need a massive adaption! Really. On 4/13/07, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Mojca, > > And what is more, you have said that other input regimes should work as well, but the following fragment doesn't work. (arbitrary symbols are substituted) I said that it could have worked ... I didn't say that it actually works ;) \enableregime should be adapted in my opinion. I had a patch already, but I don't have time to look for it right now. The following should work though: Either \XeTeXinputencoding "bytes" % uncomment the line which prevents loading of regimes in XeTeX \enableregime[cp1251] or \XeTeXinputencoding "cp1251" > \enableregime[cp1251] > \definetypeface[myface][rm][Xserif][Times New Roman] > \setupbodyfont[myface, 12pt] > \starttext > Hello World! > Привет! > \stoptext > > (I really saved the file in that encoding - Windows Cyrillic, 1251) > > It is quite disappointing, because that encoding would cover my English-Russian-Ukrainian typesetting needs fully. UTF is amazing but not as convenient as cp1251. There should really be no problem in adapting the \enableregime to cover those regimes (it's really a simple patch). From the fact that Hans added quite some new files and definitions during transition to luaTeX ... I guess that he might still be willing to adapt that behaviour in XeTeX as well. Mojca

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Grid-keeping list (again)
by Johannes Kuester 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello, I'm still trying to typeset a "grid-keeping" list (or table). Wolfgang Schuster supplied me off-list with the attached module. This works fine except for one problem: Only the first few lines are placed on the grid, then the grid is lost. After the next pass (i.e. after the next "texmfstart texexec testfile"), some more lines are placed on the grid. (So I need many passes to typeset the complete list correctly). Why? Any idea? (I fiddled around with \synchronizegrid, \placeongrid, \moveongrid, and \startlinecorrection \stoplinecorrection, but none of these seems to work.) You could try the effect with the following example: %%%%%%%%%% \setuplayout[grid=yes, columns=2] \showgrid %\showstruts \usemodule[gridlist] \starttext \startcolumns[n=2, balance=no] %% (columns are not necessary to show the effect) \dorecurse{20}{ \zeichen{0001}{a}{first letter}{}% \zeichen{0002}{b}{second letter}{}% \zeichen{0002}{c}{third letter, this one has a longer entry which needs more than one line}{}% } \stopcolumns \stoptext %%%%%%%%%% (This should result in an annotated list of mathematical symbols, showing the Unicode number, the math symbol, and some explanation (and where the explanation could need more than one line); quite similar to the list I published in "Detailtypografie" (2nd ed. 2004), but for another -- quite pressing -- project.) Johannes -- Johannes Kuester typoma mailto:jk@typoma.com http://www.typoma.com

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Re: [NTG-context] Can I use OpenType fonts with ConTeXt on Windows right now
by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Hello Paul, Thanks a lot for help with Xetex+Context on Windows. And by the way, what is the "uc" encoding? It is not mentioned on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes -- With best regards Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky

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"Announcing: XPSTeX" . A joke. Really ?
by luigi scarso 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

ok, it's a joke http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.pdftex/3404 (but the best is http://www.google.com/tisp/ ) But my question is: Will be "easy" in luatex to implement a new output format (dvi,pdf,xps,<<my-xml>>,<<my-bin-format>>) driven by command line ? Actually $>texmfstart texexec --pdf a.tex ==> a.pdf $>texmfstart texexec a.tex ==> a.dvi ie, tex=>pdf or tex=>dvi because pdftex has two native output format. Of course one can use workflows tex=>dvi=>ps=>pdf tex=>dvi=>html by external tools, or one can write a tex macro that write on file whatever one wants, but it's not what I mean. luigi

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